Mystery in the Old Attic. Ukrainian A2
Read an A2 Ukrainian story about a key, an old chest and respectful handling of family belongings.
Таємниця старого горища
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What you'll learn
Past tense, locations, asking permission and vocabulary for family belongings.
Olya finds a key and opens a drawer with an old brooch together with her grandmother.
After reading
Article learning block
Phrases, words, grammar, and quick practice from this text.
Phrases for training
Add useful phrases to SRS or mark them as already known.
Можна подивитися речі
newMay I look at the things?
Можна helps you ask for permission politely.
Use this phrase before you touch or look at someone else's belongings.
Оля не стала сама відкривати коробку
newOlya decided not to open the box by herself.
Не стала plus an infinitive means that a person chose not to begin an action.
Use it to say that you do not do something without permission.
Оля покликала бабусю
newOlya called her grandmother over.
Покликала is the feminine past-tense form of покликати.
Use it when you ask someone to come to you.
Цей ключ відкриває шухляду
newThis key opens the drawer.
Відкриває is a present-tense form that describes what the key does.
Use this sentence to explain what an object is for.
брошка у формі метелика
newA brooch shaped like a butterfly.
У формі describes the shape of an object.
Use this pattern to describe an object's appearance precisely.
вона забула про схованку
newShe forgot about the hiding place.
After забути про, Ukrainian names what a person no longer remembers.
Use this phrase when you talk about forgotten information or a forgotten place.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
attic
горищі
An attic is a space under the roof of a house.
Горищі is the location form of горище in the phrase на горищі.
Use it to name part of a house and say where something happens.
key
ключ
An object used to open a lock or a drawer.
In the story, the key helps open a hidden drawer.
Use this word when you talk about locks, doors or chests.
drawer
шухляду
A sliding part of a desk or cabinet.
Шухляду is the form used for the object that they found.
Use it to describe furniture and places where things are kept.
brooch
брошка
A piece of jewelry attached to clothing.
In the story, the brooch is an important family belonging.
Use this word to name a small piece of jewelry.
hiding place
схованку
A place where something is hidden.
After про, схованка changes to the form схованку.
Use it when you talk about a place for a hidden object.
permission
дозволу
Permission to do something.
After без, дозвіл changes to the form дозволу.
This word is important when you ask for or give permission.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Past tense: she saw
Оля побачила синю коробку
Olya saw a blue box.
Побачила is the feminine past-tense form of побачити, to see.
Use this pattern to tell about an event that already happened.
Location: на кришці
На кришці лежав маленький ключ
A small key lay on the lid.
After на, кришці is the location form used to say where the key lay.
Use this form to say where an object is.
A negative request
не відкривай листи без мене
Do not open the letters without me.
Відкривай is the familiar singular imperative. With не, it makes a negative request.
Use it when you ask a friend not to do something without you.
To whom did she show it?
показала їй знахідку
Olya showed her the find.
Їй is the dative form meaning to her. It names the person who receives or is shown something.
Use it to say whom you give or show something to.
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